A trip to Hoover Dam is a must for people in the concrete industry. You will be awestruck by its size, the rugged landscape, amd the challenges crews faced when they built it in the 1930s. It truly is a 20th century wonder.

Producers are trapped. QC departments are increasingly creating special mix designs calling for exotic supplementary bulk materials, such as cements and pigments. Unfortunately, these high-profile jobs are often not large enough to justify a major plant expansion to handle these additional...